Speculation : Shane Long to return

[SCIAG]

9/19= 0.474
Whilst that's not half, it is close enough for the point being made.

[SydenhamRoyal]

9/19= 0.474
Whilst that's not half, it is close enough for the point being made.

Are you Snowball in disguise?

[Reading4eva]

From BBC "Breaking News" section today

FOOTBALL
West Brom striker Shane Long admits his future is in doubt as he struggles to seal a new contract at The Hawthorns.

Long told the Wolverhampton Express & Star: "I don't want to go anywhere but time is running out on my contract and if an opportunity comes along that is right for me and my family, I will have to take a look at it."

I would be very happy if he came back although not sure we need him since Pog remembered he's a striker...

Pog has only remembered he's a striker because he wants to earn a move away in Jan or next summer.. let's not convince ourselves he's suddenly committed to RFC for his love for the club.

Also, Sharp is only a loan and Blackman is utter dogshit, so we may need to look at a striker come January, although we can't afford Long!

Pog was crying with Dellor after the Derby game. He is as committed as he is to Mother Russia.

Maybe he wants to prove Reading4eva wrong... If so fair play to him but he needs to keep scoring!

A winner against Harry's lot may begin to convince me.

Or he might of realised "sh!t there a World Cup on this year"

[Mr Angry]

Long told the Wolverhampton Express & Star: "I don't want to go anywhere but time is running out on my contract and if an opportunity comes along that is right for me and my family, I will have to take a look at it."

Translated, it means he is NOT looking to take a drop in salary; therefore, if someone comes in offering the same or more, he will go, if not, he will stay at WBA.

If I was him, I would have been unsettled by the way WBA appeared happy to sell him to Hull on Deadline Day - its a pretty clear signal that your current Manager doesn't really see you in his plans.

IF - and its a big if - Reading were prepared to meet his current salary and agree a fee of around what WBA paid us for Long then he MAY consider coming back to us permanently, but I wouldn't bet on it.

On the other hand, a loan move here in Jan is a more realistic possibility IMHO, especially if no-one other than Hull make any moves for him within the Premier League (though if Hull do come back in for him, he would probably go there in preference to a loan move back to us).

[maffff]

Long told the Wolverhampton Express & Star: "I don't want to go anywhere but time is running out on my contract and if an opportunity comes along that is right for me and my family, I will have to take a look at it."

Translated, it means he is NOT looking to take a drop in salary; therefore, if someone comes in offering the same or more, he will go, if not, he will stay at WBA.

If I was him, I would have been unsettled by the way WBA appeared happy to sell him to Hull on Deadline Day - its a pretty clear signal that your current Manager doesn't really see you in his plans.

IF - and its a big if - Reading were prepared to meet his current salary and agree a fee of around what WBA paid us for Long then he MAY consider coming back to us permanently, but I wouldn't bet on it.

On the other hand, a loan move here in Jan is a more realistic possibility IMHO, especially if no-one other than Hull make any moves for him within the Premier League (though if Hull do come back in for him, he would probably go there in preference to a loan move back to us).

If 'whatever is right for me and my family' wasn't a come and get me plea then I'll never know. Obviously by 'me' he means him and by virtue of that his wife, child and wider family (based down in Berkshire..), by 'family' he clearly means Reading FC. Nice he still thinks of us in that way <3

[NewCorkSeth]

9/19= 0.474
Whilst that's not half, it is close enough for the point being made.

Not relevant the statement was in black and white stop trying to grey it up..

[TBM]

Agreed but thats not half.

Prem teams who are unlikely to buy Long: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle, Norwich, Southampton, Swansea, Tottenham, West Brom.

Teams who might buy him: Cardiff, Palace, Fulham, Hull, Stoke, Sunderland, West Ham.

Chances of the three teams being relegated coming from column B? 89%

You could argue Newcastle and Norwich into column B but still not half.

You could also throw in Villa, that'll make it half

[sandman]

Journalist "There's talk of him going to Nottingham Forest on loan. Is that something you'd consider?"

Steve Clarke "Shane? Shane won't go to a Championship Club, Shane's a Premier League player"

[Pepe the Horseman]

"Unless it's Reading" He murmured

[NewCorkSeth]

Agreed but thats not half.

Prem teams who are unlikely to buy Long: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle, Norwich, Southampton, Swansea, Tottenham, West Brom.

Teams who might buy him: Cardiff, Palace, Fulham, Hull, Stoke, Sunderland, West Ham.

Chances of the three teams being relegated coming from column B? 89%

You could argue Newcastle and Norwich into column B but still not half.

You could also throw in Villa, that'll make it half

Nah! I wouldn't even put Newcastle or Norwich in the mix.

[Chuckle Brother]

"Unless it's Reading" He murmured

But Reading is a Premiership club that just happens to be spending a year in The Championship.

[1871 not 1998]

Hull look set to bag Jelovic and have also bid £6m for Long tonight. Don't we get around 20% sell on? seen 25% mentioned as well. That pays for Sharp with change.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Doesn't Anton (still) being majority owner decides what pocket the money goes into??


Only kidding

[From Despair To Where?]

Everton fan at work reckons that with Jelovic gone, they are after Long.

[FridaysGhost]

Why would he want to go back to Ireland?

[HoneyRoastHoax]

Sky Sports News ‏@SkySportsNews 16m

Sky sources: Hull agree fee with West Brom for Shane Long #SSN
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[Royalwaster]

Sky Sports News ‏@SkySportsNews 16m

Sky sources: Hull agree fee with West Brom for Shane Long #SSN
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Great - at least he's not joining Leeds ....

[SPARTA]

Apparently £4m possibly rising to £6m, and we do get a sell-on fee. It wont be much though but it's still unexpected money coming in.